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Amanda Nunes vs.
Felicia Spencer

Two full careers, measured against each man's own division and against each other — the tape, the read, and every number behind them.

16-2-0 Amanda Nunes · UFC
3-3-0 Felicia Spencer · UFC
Tale of the tape

The men, measured.

Frame, age, layoff and recent form — green marks the edge on each line.

16-2-0
UFC record
3-3-0
Women's Bantamweight
Division (benchmark)
Women's Featherweight
38.2
AgeΔ 2.5 yrs
35.7
5'8"
HeightΔ 2"
5'6"
69"
ReachΔ 1"
68"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
37.9
Layoff (months)Δ 18.8 mo
56.7
WWLWW
Last 5 (newest first)
WLLWL
The read

What the numbers say.

Scouting notes, auto-generated — only stats deviating more than 25% from the division median make this list. No narratives, just deviations.

Amanda Nunes carries real power — 0.59 knockdowns per 15 minutes, vs a 0.08 Women's Bantamweight norm.
Amanda Nunes hunts takedowns — 2.79 per 15 minutes, vs a 0.91 Women's Bantamweight norm.
Felicia Spencer absorbs 4.54 sig. strikes per minute, well above the 2.33 Women's Featherweight norm — hittable.
Level of competition

Who did they actually beat?

Full-career records re-graded by the tier of opposition — the same grading the Contender Series pick model uses. Records built on tier-4 competition are worth less than records built on killers.

Amanda Nunes

Full career not yet synced for Amanda Nunes — tier grading appears once their record documentation lands (refreshes weekly).

In the UFC: 13-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.2 wins over .500

Felicia Spencer

Full career not yet synced for Felicia Spencer — tier grading appears once their record documentation lands (refreshes weekly).

In the UFC: 1-2 against opponents who walked in above .500 · avg opponent walk-in record +2.5 wins over .500

Striking

The stand-up battle.

Career totals; norms are the medians of each man's own division.

Significant strikes — landed & absorbed

9284.54/min · norm 3.56
Sig. strikes landed
2453.21/min · norm 3.85
4992.44/min · norm 3.51
Sig. strikes absorbed
3474.54/min · norm 2.33
52.0%norm 46.65%
Striking accuracy
48.8%norm 51.0%
59.3%norm 52.45%
Striking defense
45.4%norm 64.3%
80.59/15 · norm 0.08
Knockdowns
00.00/15 · norm 0.17

Where the fight happens (share of sig. strike attempts)

Amanda Nunes

Distance 73.4% (norm 80.3%) · Clinch 2.9% (norm 9.7%) · Ground 23.8% (norm 7.5%)

Felicia Spencer

Distance 67.3% (norm 72.1%) · Clinch 16.9% (norm 16.0%) · Ground 15.7% (norm 11.9%)

What they throw (share of sig. strike attempts by target)

Amanda Nunes

Head 74.9% (norm 75.2%) · Body 11.1% (norm 14.3%) · Legs 14.0% (norm 8.8%)

Felicia Spencer

Head 77.5% (norm 74.7%) · Body 13.5% (norm 14.2%) · Legs 9.0% (norm 9.0%)

Zone accuracy matrix Landed / attempted by zone

Green ≥ division median, red below. UFCStats tracks position and target as separate splits.

Zone Nunes L/AAccWomen's Bantamweight med Spencer L/AAccWomen's Featherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 639 / 1309 48.8% 38.3% 120 / 338 35.5% 47.3%
In the clinch 33 / 51 64.7% 73.3% 64 / 85 75.3% 78.3%
On the ground 256 / 424 60.4% 70.8% 61 / 79 77.2% 69.1%
BY TARGET
To the head 629 / 1337 47.0% 37.7% 167 / 389 42.9% 42.9%
To the body 124 / 198 62.6% 70.0% 43 / 68 63.2% 79.1%
To the legs 175 / 249 70.3% 80.9% 35 / 45 77.8% 82.0%

Zones with fewer than 25 attempts are marked "too few to rate". Each fighter is measured against the median of leaderboard-eligible fighters in his own division (Women's Bantamweight: 40 fighters · Women's Featherweight: 3 fighters).

What lands on them Opponents' accuracy against each man

Green ≤ division median — harder to hit than the typical man in his division.

Zone vs Nunes L/AOpp accWomen's Bantamweight med vs Spencer L/AOpp accWomen's Featherweight med
BY POSITION
At distance 397 / 1071 37.1% 41.3% 258 / 515 50.1% 32.4%
In the clinch 45 / 66 68.2% 74.7% 50 / 66 75.8% 72.7%
On the ground 57 / 89 64.0% 74.2% 39 / 54 72.2% 72.2%
BY TARGET
To the head 338 / 1001 33.8% 38.1% 213 / 476 44.7% 26.3%
To the body 73 / 109 67.0% 73.2% 78 / 98 79.6% 60.3%
To the legs 88 / 116 75.9% 80.9% 56 / 61 91.8% 67.6%
Grappling

The ground war.

Takedowns, control and submissions — career totals with each man's per-minute rates against his division norm.

3856.7% acc · 2.79/15 · norm 0.91
Takedowns landed
618.8% acc · 1.18/15 · norm 1.18
2681.3% def · norm 62.5%
Takedowns stopped
327.3% def · norm 71.9%
69:5834.2% of cage time · norm 26.55%
Control time
23:4631.1% of cage time · norm 24.0%
13:120:58 per 15 · norm 3:19
Time under control
12:172:24 per 15 · norm 2:26
100.73/15 · norm 0.34
Submission attempts
10.20/15 · norm 0.00

Bars compare the two men's rates (per-minute / per-15 figures), not raw totals — Nunes has more cage time on record.

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